On 05/30/2012 06:21 PM, Sciss wrote:
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thanks for the link and the info. so you think atom
processors are
fine enough? the latency actually doesn't matter in my case. i'm more
worried that i'm going to through a lot of CPU heavy stuff on it, as
this will run experimental software I wrote myself (and I won't have
any time for performance tuning of the software itself).
Really hard to tell. esp. for audio applications. I also have no clue
how efficient supercollider is..
Are you using supernova to make use of multiple cores?
As rule of thumb: Atom CPUs processing power is comparable to that of an
i3 of the same clock-freq. But most Atom chipsets lack some CPU features
- e.g virtualization support. Yet Atom != Atom and i3 != i3 ; it really
depends on the model. I suppose the only way to tell is to try..
What I really like about Atom CPUs for audio is that they can run fan-less.
best,
robin